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Alerton International has introduced the SafetyBlu™ SB-450 Blue Light Inspection Kit, featuring a portable, high-intensity blue light (450 nm) LED flashlight. Used in conjunction with the company’s revolutionary FluidSafe™ fluorescent additive, the SB-450 kit locates hydraulic fluid leaks early on. This can help prevent injection injuries to mine workers, and also reduces fluid consumption by 5% to 7% annually.

Oil's precipitous decline, a looming emerging market currency crisis and the retreat in equities see investors flocking back to gold.

The crystallizer, which weighs about 330 tonnes, is expected to arrive to K+S potash Legacy mine near Bethune on Friday.

But only 34% plans to hire full-time employees and a further 20% is actually considering job cuts.

Blast-hole drill rig operators often have to work with an outside assistant and ThoroughTec have catered for this by creating an artificially intelligent mine worker that works in the 3D virtual world while the operator is training in the simulated cab.

A nearly 50% pullback in the price of oil has done serious damage to revenue of oil producers.

Low oil prices today may be setting the world up for an oil shortage as early as 2016.

In this interview with The Gold Report, find out what Cook expects for gold exploration in 2015, and why the next few years are going to be very interesting indeed for yellow metal miners.